shadcn/ui
How vibe coders and indie builders use shadcn/ui: 80 projects built with it and 7 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
80
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.3%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
7
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- Tailwind CSS 52
- React 45
- TypeScript 40
- Next.js 34
- Vercel 25
- PostgreSQL 24
- Supabase 21
- Vite 16
What's built with it
Latest projects built with shadcn/ui
- B2B SaaS OS — Provides a Next.js and Supabase starter with database-level multi-tenant isolation, RBAC, Stripe billing, and an automated integration test suite for security checks.“I built B2B SaaS OS – Next.js 16 + Supabase starter with an automated 8-point security test runner”
- CiteScout — Checks buyer questions weekly through Perplexity and emails the Reddit and YouTube threads that AI answers cite most.“Made a waitlist page before writing any of the actual app. Does the idea come across?”
- Slotloom — Lets visitors book meetings through shareable scheduling links and creates calendar events with Google Meet or Teams invites.“Most booking tools charge per seat and keep your calendar data in their cloud, so we built an open source one that runs on your own Cloudflare account”
- I built an AI app that answers… — Replies to WhatsApp customer messages for small businesses using only the owner's business info and FAQ, and hands chats to a human when it cannot answer.“I built an AI app that answers WhatsApp messages for small businesses. I'm discontinuing the project, does anyone want to take it over?”
- CoTally — Tracks shared household expenses and personal spending across multiple currencies, with offline logging and sync.“I built CoTally — A privacy-first family expense tracker PWA with offline sync & live multi-currency auto-conversion”
- Snaply — Runs image tools like background removal, metadata viewing and stripping, redaction, and compression entirely in the browser without uploading files.“Built a privacy-first image toolkit that runs entirely in your browser, no uploads, now open source”
- Skrewww — Provides an open-source React and TypeScript design system paired with Figma components and machine-readable component contracts for AI coding agents.“I built a Figma + React design system that also gives AI coding agents structured component contracts”
- StackForge — Generates a pnpm monorepo with a Next.js web app, a NestJS API with Prisma and JWT auth, and shared Zod contracts.“create-stackforge-app — full-stack monorepo generator (Next 14, Nest 10, Prisma, JWT, Docker)”
- Mediaflix — Recommends movies and TV shows through an AI chat assistant and an AI critic that scores titles against the user's favorites.“I built a movie discovery site with an AI that tells you what to watch. Would love feedback.”
- Gala — Plans trips as costed daily itineraries with a budget split, timeline, 3D map, and calendar or PDF export.“I built a trip planner that costs the itinerary before you go, because I was planning every trip across Notes, a budget app, and Google Maps”
- CSV Cleanup Kit — Cleans CSV and TSV exports locally by trimming cell edges, removing empty rows and dropping exact duplicate rows by chosen key columns, with a JSON change report.“CSV Cleanup Kit: local processing with a record-by-record change report (AI-assisted build)”
- Auis — Builds and enforces a design system in a Next.js app so AI coding agents create UI using shared tokens and component rules.“I open-sourced Auis - a design system builder where AI agents build the UI under rules you set (Next.js + shadcn/ui, MIT)”
- Ciele — Builds embeddable AI chat widgets that answer only from an organization's own content and cite their sources, escalating to human help desks when needed.“I built an open-source alternative to the expensive "AI assistant for your organization" platforms”
- SaaSForge — Provides a Next.js starter kit with prebuilt authentication, database, UI components and Stripe subscription billing for new SaaS apps.“I got tired of rebuilding Auth and Billing for every side project, so I built a production-ready Next.js 14 boilerplate.”
- Nuumia — Provides calculators and unit conversions in a minimal, ad-free web page where you enter numbers and get an answer.“I built my first web app as a side project, completely free”
Latest add-ons built for shadcn/ui
- neobrutalism.dev — Provides ready-made neobrutalism-styled UI components for shadcn/ui.“I've built a neobrutalism-styled shadcn/ui library”
- Transition Kit — Provides copy-paste page transitions and theme toggle components installable via the shadcn registry.“Build an Website for Theme and page Transitions Templates”
- Motiq — Provides animated React and shadcn components that represent product states like streaming AI responses, deployments, uploads and KPI changes.“I built an open-source animated component library for React, Next.js and shadcn - looking for honest feedback”
- GodUI — Provides a library of animated React UI components that users copy into their projects via a shadcn-style CLI, with an MCP server that generates components for AI IDEs.“I built an open-source collection of animated React UI components”
- Dithered Logo — Renders an SVG or image as an interactive canvas particle logo with dithering, cursor repulsion and click ripples.“Dithered Logo — interactive canvas particle component (open source)”
- Rtecn — Provides prebuilt shadcn-style rich text editor components built on Tiptap, with toolbars, slash menus and block handles.“Made an simple rich text editors for your shadcn projects.”
- Trophy UI — Provides open-source shadcn-installable React components for gamification features such as streaks, leaderboards, achievement badges and points level timelines.“Open-source UI components for gamification interfaces”
Pitched as alternatives to shadcn/ui
- RadianUI — Provides a React component design system with a Figma kit synced to the code and a set of official UI blocks built on base components.“We started with shadcn, ran into a wall, so we built our own thing (now it's kind of blowing up)”
- UIPKGE — Provides an open-source registry of copy-paste UI components, blocks, and templates for Vue/Nuxt and React/Next apps.“Built UIPKGE: copy-paste shadcn-style UI for Vue/Nuxt and React/Next”
- radianos — Provides copy-paste React UI components and color palettes, plus prebuilt page blocks assembled from them.“I built radianos – A UI library focused on highly polished, production-ready UI blocks and color palettes.”
- Axiom UI — Provides copy-paste React UI components rendered with WebGL and physics instead of CSS.“Wanted an excuse to finally learn Blender, so I built a 3D React component library.”